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September 2010 a Publication of the Gifford Park Neighborhood Association Gifford Park's Pride Gifford Park Neighborhood: A Great Place to Live, Work, Learn and Play www.giffordparkomaha.org September 2010 A Publication of the Gifford Park Neighborhood Association Neighborhood Survey Responses Next General Meeting Ready For Review Thursday, September 9 Summer ends and so does the Neighborhood Survey. As of this newsletter printing, we have received over 170 survey responses. Over the summer the volunteer Speakers From: committee sent out surveys in two newsletters; one Big Brothers/Big Sisters Of The hand delivered door to door and one as an insert in the mailed newsletter. The neighborhood website had 67 Midlands survey responses. Our survey drop box in the business & district and the neighborhood P.O. box received many LOCAL completed surveys both in English and Spanish. One Friday afternoon volunteers stopped by all the (Let Omaha Control its Alcohol businesses in the business district and talked to the Landscape) owners encouraging them to fill out surveys, and our scrappy group of volunteers even set up a table outside the bike shop over the lunch hour to get people on the 7:00 P.M. street to fill out a survey. So for those who gave us Creighton University their opinions and time, thank you very much. Thank you to all the many volunteers from the neighborhood, Medical Center Destination Midtown, UNO, and the Gifford Park Morrison Seminar Room Neighborhood Association Board. Now the fun begins - these responses will be compiled Executive Meeting by UNO’s School of Public Administration and the Thursday, September 23 results will be shared at 6:00 pm, October 20th, in At the Flint's one of the Creighton University Medical Center conference rooms. Everyone and anyone is invited to attend. As more develops about this next meeting, it Campaign For LOCAL Control will be posted in the next newsletter. This meeting will As most of you know our 33rd & California Street be a time to see what people have been saying and business district has four locations with off-sale alcohol thinking. It will start to show us what we as a licenses within a short one block area. In June, despite neighborhood need to be looking at for the future. strong opposition again from the Gifford Park Neighborhood Association (GPNA), the Nebraska Thanks again everyone and we look forward to seeing Liquor Control Commission (LCC) approved the latest you at our meeting in October……yes, for those liquor license application to the Cass Gas N Shop at motivated by food, we’re already planning what to 33rd & Cass St. The GPNA is currently appealing this serve. decision to the District Court. Have a great fall and remember to look after your Across Omaha the number of alcohol outlets has neighbor. steadily increased the past few years. You may by Martin Janousek remember the Walgreens case earlier this year when the Omaha City Council voted against 13 of the 20 It'sBack To School Walgreens’ liquor license applications. Two months later the LCC ignored the City’s recommendation of Time . Please Drive denial and citizens’ protest, granting Walgreens’ liquor Carefully! license applications. Other neighborhoods similar to continued on page 2 GPNA Newsletter Page 2 LOCAL Control . continued from page 1 GPNA OFFICERS PRESIDENT Gifford Park are frustrated as well. Another example occurred in late August; the Dana Carlton-Flint* 346-4575 Miller Park-Minne Lusa Neighborhood Association opposed the Howell’s BP’s liquor VICE PRESIDENT license at 7166 N. 30th St. The City Council recommended denial based on Stuart Shell 216-1235 documented violence and crime, including a December homicide where a store clerk SECRETARY was shot dead. The LCC granted the liquor license, despite the City’s Jill Westfall* 213-3105 recommendation of denial and citizens’ protest. TREASURER Jackie Foster* 551-3629 Many Omaha citizens, especially in neighborhoods east of 72nd Street, have had similar experiences of feeling powerless with no effective means to protect our BOARD MEMBERS neighborhoods against the negative impact of too many and poorly managed off-sale AT LARGE: alcohol locations. The state system for issuing alcohol licenses and monitoring their Chris Hupp* 750-3119 AT LARGE operations is broken. All decisions are currently made by the State LCC, which Justin Brown* 932-5932 largely ignores input from Omaha residents while protecting the economic interest of AT LARGE the alcohol industry. Luther Larson* 330-3286 BUSINESS The Campaign for LOCAL (Let Omaha Control its Alcohol Landscape) Control is an Martin Janousek* 558-4070 effort by neighborhood & community organizations and citizens concerned about LANDLORD changing the licensing process. We propose a new ordinance to give Omaha the Chris Foster 342-6006 authority to make its own alcohol licensing decisions through zoning restrictions to GARDEN LIASON protect the quality of life throughout the city. Diane Kaye 341-4146 What can you do to help? Attend the next GPNA meeting (see date and location on COMMITTEES page 1). Also come to a kick-off event to support the Campaign for LOCAL COMPLIANCE/PARKING Control - Saturday, October 2nd, at 10 am, at Memorial Park, 57th & Dodge VIOLATIONS St. For more information, call 957-1160 or e-mail the [email protected]. Leo Wilwerding 345-1433 HISTORIAN by Chris Foster Eva Swanson 345-1707 HOLIDAY BANQUET P.S. On June 6th there was an incident at our 33rd & California St.business district in Jean Peck 344-0722 which two men were caught on video surveillance pushing over 3 large flower pots. I MEMBERSHIP filed a report with Police Officers, and sent this information to various officials, Stuart Shell 216-1235 including the mayor and governor. On August 23rd, myself (as a witness) and Omaha NEWSLETTER Police Detective Robert Hutton appeared in Douglas County Court (case: State of Sue Wilwerding 342-2795 Nebraska vs William J. Lieb) and provided pictures, damage estimates and testimony. NEWSLETTER DISTRIBUTION (Note: Bob and Darryl Hutton also attended the hearing). At the time of the flower Chris Foster 342-6006 pot incident Lieb was very drunk, which is common when we see him around 33rd PARK & California. Sandy* & Roger Freeman 557-2914 PUBLIC RELATIONS Dana Carlton-Flint 346-4575 Long story short, Lieb pleaded no contest and was sentenced to 120 days in jail (he is WEEDS & LITTER already in jail for a July shoplifting incident). He asked the judge if he could do Jim Wilwerding 551-1344 community service for the neighborhood association - the Judge said NO after WELCOMING counting up 253 entries on his rap sheet, including murder, sexual assault of a Julie Kalkowski* 342-2103 juvenile, possession of stolen property, (and this list goes on). I believe Lieb is only 37 years old. Think of all the times he did NOT get caught, and what more we can * denotes new officer, board, or expect when he is released soon and likely heads back to 33rd & California. committee member We all know there are too many cases like Lieb's of individuals with long criminal Editor's note: If you have some- records, and it is a waste of resources for all of us in the neighborhood, business thing that would be of interest to district, law enforcement, social services, local and state government, etc. our neighborhood, we encourage you to submit an article for our Quite honestly as bad as Lieb’s record is, I’m more concerned about the bigger monthly newsletter. Editorials picture (policy and enforcement) of having 4 off-sale alcohol outlets within our must be approved by the GPNA small neighborhood business district and the burden on law enforcement and Executive Board. Articles can be our Gifford Park neighborhood, not to mention the added challenges of mailed to P.O. Box 31462 Omaha, attracting good economic development (developers have expressed this NE 68131; please include your same alcohol density concern). Obviously the alcohol situation is not the only name and phone number. Contact issue, but it is very significant to our problems, it iscostly, and it keeps us from Sue Wilwerding (342-2795) or reaching our potential. Chris Foster (342-6006). GPNA Newsletter Page 3 GPNA Offers Leadership Opportunities Do you have great ideas that could make our Duchesne Academy neighborhood a better place? Have you considered 2)7+(6$&5('+($57 being a bigger part of what's happening in Gifford Park? Now is your chance. All of our officer Call today to schedule a visit in positions will be open as of December 31st. We are currently taking volunteers to be on our slate of the Academy or Preschool! officers for 2011. You need to be GPNA member in good standing and have a desire to be a part of the 3601 Burt Street à Omaha, NE 68131 à 402-558-3800 ever changing landscape of Gifford Park. If you www.duchesneacademy.org meet these qualifications please contact our current President, Dana Carlton-Flint @ 346-4575 or [email protected] . Positions available are GPNA Hosts Pot Luck For National President, Vice-President, Treasurer and Secretary. Night Out The slate of officers must be printed in the October This year's community event for participating in the newsletter so that a vote can be held at our National Night Out on August 3rd was a pot luck picnic November meeting. Thank you in advance for your sponsored by the GPNA. Thanks to event organizers: dedication to Gifford Park. GPNA President (and our fearless leader) Dana Carlton- Flint, Jill Westfall, Diane Kaye & James Nordaker Safe Routes To School (the pulled pork hit the spot!) Special thanks to Caitie How many kids in Gifford Park walk to school? No Caughey for doing face-painting – very nice job! one really knows.
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